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Who’s Listening to Your Voicemail?
For some time now, reporters, writers and the many scribes of our day have been nervously worrying over the changing face, and apparent declining market
Casey’s Crucible
Unless you’ve been visiting the moon of Titan for the last few days, you probably know by now that Casey Anthony, accused of killing her
Movie Monday: Dark of the Box Office
You can’t keep a good machine down. Transformers: Dark of the Moon flew down to earth and claimed everything it saw for its own clanky
The Sad Case of Amy Winehouse
I wonder whether 2010 will be known as “the age of the celebrity meltdown.” Singer Amy Winehouse is the latest star to fall—though, in truth,
The Face of Things to Come
We Americans have had our share of entertaining pretenders. From yesteryear’s The Monkees to Disney’s Lemonade Mouth, there have been plenty of producer-created bands and
Kids, Violence, Porn and the Supreme Court
Earlier this week, the United States Supreme Court struck down a 2005 California law banning the sale and rental of video games depicting the “killing,
What’s the Best Animated Movie Ever?
I’m a sucker for lists. I’m a big fan of animated movies. So when Time came out with a list of its Top 25 animated
Movie Monday: Cars 2
So what if it suffered a couple of critical dings? So what if reviewers thought Pixar’s newest animated vehicle didn’t hum quite as smoothly as
Death Told by Facebook
I didn’t know who Ryan Dunn was until a few days before he died, when I happened to watch part of the NBC game show
A Gunman’s Facebook Status
In one of the more bizarre examples of social networking give and take, an armed 36-year-old guy named Jason Valdez recently held a woman hostage
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